Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-03-12
He Approves Of His Sons Venture In Jour
nalism.

My DEAR SoN. Your first letter
written since you started your paper
at New Bolony was received yesterday.
We felt glad to hear that you had got
located in business for yourself, and it
made me feel proud to get copy of the
paper, which you call the Retina. |
do not know why you call it the Retina.
Still the Bolony Retina sounds kind Of
fulsome and didactic.
Retina, | always supposed, was kind
of medical term,> and | would just be
fool enough. if l started paper, to
call it the Sciatica or the Polypus at
Work. It's wonderful how people run
to new names these days, and plain
man, with common school education,
has to 60 groping along through the
world as best he can. | presume that
With your florid education, such a
word as Retina doesn't stump you for q
minute, but with me its different. ]
am rough, hard-working man, and al
ways been busy all my life. One OF the
neighbors asked me night before last
why | hadn't ever joined the knights
of Labor, and | told him that I'd al
ways been too busy.
It's fact, too. I've always been so
constantly employed that | couldn't be-
long to labor organization and give it
the attention it ought to have.
like the tone of your editorial piece
on the inside OF your paper, which is
entitled Salutatory. i like it where 1t
goes on to say as follows:
"We shall strive in season and out OF
season to advocate resources and llabll-
ties of New Bolony as health resort
and county seat Our voice will ever
be heard IN clarion tones putting its
shoulder to the wheel of progress and
tramping on oppression with both feet.
"We shall send the Retina to every
quarter of the globe, SO that New
Bolony, with its wealth of picturesque
valley, hill and dale, together with its
new court house and health giving al
mosphere, will be known wherever the
english language is spoke.
at is true that the editor OF this
paper has just emerged from college,
and is still young, but he has had some
experience in writing for college
paper, and he knows what the needs
and wants of the people are. He is
aware that the class of readers who will
peruse the Retina will not be so refined
or cultivated, perhaps, as his college
readers were, but he will try to make
himself understood, and we think he
will be successful.
eve shall constantly improve the
Retina as growing business and patron
age may warrant, so that in few years
our readerswill look back on this first
copy with ill-concealed mirth. We are
already figuring on a dark-blue jot
press, and rubber door mat for the
office bearing the legend Welcome in
large gothic extended letters.
1--WE shall espouse the cause of nc
party or faction for the present, prefer
ing to remain neutral for the time be.
ing, hopping on to the erroneous, ever
and anon, however, as circumstances
may arise, which will seem to call on
us ior word of reproof, admonition OF
encouragement. We shall not make
any boasts or fill the air with bombas,
at this time, but when hydra-headed
wrong emerges from its hole, the casua
observer will see us knock seventeen
: distinct varieties Of tar out of sale
hydra-headed wrong, and those wht
carefully observe our course while con
Quoting the Retina will notice that there
are no flies on it.
"We have quite number of oql
best essays and orations, prepared while
we were attending school and college
which will appear from time to time il
these columns. They are carefully anC
exhaustively written, and entirely covel
the ground. Among these we ma,
name the following, titles:
"The American Indian-Hls Glorious Pas
and His Opaque Future.
"The Care and Discipline of Children from al
bipartisan Standpoint
"The Disagreeable Result of Crime-Nesessit.
for Exercise Among the Laboring Classes.
"Demosthenes as an Of-hand Speaker"
"How to Reclaim Giddy Parents-Where /
Your Parent Tonight?
"Criticisms on the Present Imperfect Plan c
Salvation.
DUTY of Wives-What Constitutes Goo
Wife.
"George Washington and the Misery He En-
tailed Upon the Youth of America by
Telling the Truth aud Afterward
Becoming the Father of
His Country.
All these essays are we'll written AM
would be highly ornamental to an
tirst-class magazine in the land, but w
are here to give satisfaction in our neN
field and the best we have ever writer
is not too good for the people OF Ney
Bolony. We aim to please.
"Wlth regard to prohibition we shal
be outspoken at all times. "As for our
self, we can use prohibition or we ca
let it alone. For the present we prefe
10 touch not, taste not, handle not tn
\ unclean thing. We favor high licens
with low ressil prices. This gradual
busts up the dealer and finally wipe
this curse from the face OF the cart